Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...
Since his death, aged 44, in 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson has had a “distinctly mixed” literary reputation, said Andrew Motion in The New Statesman. To many modernists, and especially the Bloomsbury ...
Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), acclaimed for his novels “Treasure Island,” “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,” and “Kidnapped,” as well as for his poetry collection “A ...